Pickles

[Alex Martelli]

William Kennedy wrote:

> How big can a pickled object be.

No direct limit AFAIK, except ones connected to the amount of memory you 
have available.


> I am looking at an index 800 records long, should I be using a database

"index" and "record" are not primitive concepts in Python, so it's hard to 
understand exactly what you mean.  A relational database may give several
advantages, with different cost/benefits tradeoffs as you move from
lightweight ones such as Gadfly or SQLite up to enterprise-level heavies
such as SAP/DB or Oracle, but amount of data you're handling is hardly
ever going to be the only consideration in your choice of storage strategy.


Alex